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NVIDIA 510.54 Linux Driver Released

Phoronix - Mon, 02/14/2022 - 22:31
Two weeks ago NVIDIA released the 510.47.03 Linux driver as their first stable driver in the 510 series. Today that has been succeded by the NVIDIA 510.54 stable update...

AMD Completes Its Acquisition Of Xilinx

Phoronix - Mon, 02/14/2022 - 22:20
As was expected with last week AMD receiving all necessary regulatory approvals for its acquisition of Xilinx, today the deal successfully closed...

Benchmarks - Is PowerTOP Tuning Worthwhile For Modern AMD Linux Laptops?

Phoronix - Mon, 02/14/2022 - 21:15
While PowerTOP was immensely helpful when the Intel open-source project started out in 2007 for reporting untuned kernel parameters and noting what's keeping the CPU from reaching its deeper sleep states, over the past decade Linux has greatly improved when it comes to power management and better behavior out-of-the-box. PowerTOP continues to see occasional commits and new releases, but there's less talk about it these days than going back a number of years when it was a must-have for x86_64 laptops. In any case I was curious to see if following its tips still provided any meaningful difference on a modern AMD Ryzen powered laptop...

Intel's Compute-Runtime Adds GPU Hang Detection

Phoronix - Mon, 02/14/2022 - 20:09
Intel's open-source Compute-Runtime stack for providing OpenCL and Level Zero support for Skylake/Gen9 graphics and newer up through their latest discrete graphics offerings is out with a new release...

Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Likely To See Better Performance This Year

Phoronix - Mon, 02/14/2022 - 18:58
V3DV as the open-source Vulkan driver within Mesa for Broadcom VideoCore hardware is most notably used by the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer. This Vulkan driver continues improving with likely this year to bring more performance optimizations and possibly work on Vulkan 1.2 conformance...

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